Wash-board



(No Model.)

' D. G. STONE.

WASH BOARD. No; 413,418. Patented Oct. 22, 1889.

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WASH- SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Application filed July 22, 1889.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DUDLEY G. STONE, of Negaunee, in the county of Marquette and State of Michigan, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Protectors for WVash-Boards, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the attachment to wash-boards commonly known as protectors, used to prevent the suds or water and soap being splashed up from the washtub and wash-board onto the clothes of the person engaged in rubbing the clothes 011 the board. Such protectors have been variously constructed and have been made reversible, so as to adapt them to either single or double wash-boards--that is, wash-boards either with a single rubbing side or face or with opposite rubbing-faces; and my invention consists in a removable protector of this description of novel construction, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims, and which is not only cheap and effective, but is capable of ready application to washboards of ordinary construction whether pro- Vided with other protectors or not, and is firmly held in position when in place on the frame of the Wash-board without any special locking-pin liable to work loose.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a face View of a wash-' board in part having my improved protector applied. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 a view in perspective of the protector detached.

A A are side sticks or standards .of the frame of an ordinary wash-board S, which frame need be of no special construction to adapt the protector to it and requires no extra cross-pieces or supports therefor.

The removable or detachable and reversible protector B may be made of any suitable material, but preferably of metal, and consists in part of an inclined guard-plate or shield 19, having a flat base portion 0, which is riveted. or otherwise rigidly secured to a NEGAUNE E, MICHIGAN.

B OA R D Patent No. 413,418, dated October 22, 1889.

Serial No. 318,260. (No model.)

supporting-strip (Z, that, together with the shield 12 and base-piece 0, extends the full width of the Wash-board and is bent down at its ends at right angles to its length to form supporting-legs e e for the protector. These legs 6 c, when the protector is applied to the wash-board, fit down within suitable sockets ff, secured in any suitable manner to the side pieces A A of the wash-board, and the supporting-strip or cross-piece (Z, with the attached shield b and base-piece 0, lie on top of the ordinary top cross-piece C of the frame of the board. joins the base-piece c is a downwardly-projecting flange g, extending the full width of the wash-board, or thereabout, and serving to close the opening between the upper crosspiece (3 of the board and the supporting-strip of the piece d of the protector, and thereby preventing any water splashed up from the wash-tub from passing out through such openter or suds splashed up from the tub in direction of the operator will strike the inclined shield b and be made to run down back into thetub, the shield I) being of any desired angle for the purpose. The protector thus constructed will be rigidly held in position on the wash-board by the legs 6 e entering down Within the sockets f f, and will require no other fastening (liable to get loose) to hold it in place. It is altogether independent of any soap-box, and may be readily detached and reversed when required, as shown by full and dotted lines in Fig. 2, to adapt it to opposite sides of the wash-hoard when the latter has double or opposite rubbing-faces.

The sockets f f, down within or through which the legs 6 e fit, might be made of mere staples, if desired, and the protector from its general construction is applicable to washboards of ordinary or other construction.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters Patent 1.-The combination, with a removable or detachable and reversible wash-board protector, substantially as described, and having an inclined upper shield and supporting side Vhere the inclined shield 72 ing or space to Wet the operator; but all walegs, of sockets adapted to be carried by said cross-strip 01, having its ends bent down and board and constructed to receive said legs forming legs e e, for attachment of the prodown Within or through them, as set forth. tector to the wash-board, as set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the 5 Within-described wash-board protector, con- Witnesses:

sisting of the inclined shield 19, base-piece c, FRANK D. STONE, downwardly-projecting flange g, and attached GRACE STONE.

DUDLEY G. STONE. 

